Controversial celebrity parenting styles revealed - including 'permissive mom' Kim Kardashian

Parenting styles tin person a lasting effect connected a child's development, peculiarly if they are raised successful nan spotlight.

From reality stars to singers and actors, personage parents return vastly different approaches to raising their children. 

While immoderate person been criticized for letting their kids norm nan roost 'out of guilt' of engaged schedules and divorce, others person taken employed drastic approaches for illustration burning their child's shoes to thatch them to extremity misplacing them.

And supermodel parents for illustration Yolanda Hadid person moreover travel nether occurrence for promoting 'harmful' and 'extreme' fare habits, while others for illustration Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher garbage to time off them inheritance truthful they don't turn up spoiled. 

Now, psychologists person revealed to DailyMail.com which celebrities travel different parenting approaches - and which ones could beryllium mounting their children up for a life of affectional issues. 

Dr Carole Lieberman, a forensic psychiatrist from Beverly Hills, California, told DailyMail.com that Kourtney Kardashian shows signs of 'attachment style' parenting.

Attachment parenting intends to unafraid an exceptionally adjacent enslaved betwixt mother and child.

This could mean dedicating arsenic overmuch clip arsenic imaginable to nan babe done co-sleeping, associated bathing, and giving commencement without symptom medication. 

Kourtney admitted past twelvemonth that she still co-sleeps pinch 10-year-old girl Penelope 'pretty overmuch each night,' and she besides did truthful pinch 12-year-old Mason until he turned seven. 

'I find, pinch my kids, that coming from a much loving attack useful best,' Kourtney said successful an section of The Kardashians past year. 

Dr Lieberman noted that 'smothering' parents are linked to a greater consequence of nan kid developing depression and worry successful later life. 

'Depending connected nan psychological make-up of each child, [attachment parenting] will either make them want to proceed to cling for much years than is really appropriate, aliases it will make them fly to get distant from her faster, because [a parent] has been overbearing,' she said.

Both these problems are associated pinch affectional troubles successful adulthood, she said. 

Kourtney isn't nan only celeb practicing attachment parenting though.

Musician Alanis Morissette has opened up astir embracing this style and 'unschooling' her 3 children. 

The 'Ironic' hitmaker, now 50, told People successful 2020: 'For me, attachment parenting is, connected a very basal level, oculus contact, skin-on-skin, responsivity, gentleness.'

'The connection "attunement" is [important] successful parenting but besides successful matrimony and champion relationship and master relationships... If we're not attuned to each different and we're missing each different for illustration ships passing, there's not a chance for that heavy relationship that will beryllium nan hotbed for their full life.'

Dr Sarah Oreck, reproductive psychiatrist and CEO and co-founder of Mavida Health, told DailyMail.com: 'Alanis is different 1 who shares a beardown accent connected breastfeeding and baby-wearing for her children, showing a beardown attachment-focused approach.'

An moreover looser attack is permissive parenting, successful which parents 'lack rules aliases structure, will not instrumentality consequences, and thin to fto their children tally their household,' Courtney Morgan, a licensed therapist and laminitis of Counseling Unconditionally successful Kentucky, told DailyMail.com.

'Their relationships pinch their children whitethorn intimately lucifer friendships aliases they whitethorn deficiency a beardown relationship pinch their child.'

A permissive genitor will often debar upsetting their child, which results successful them giving into their child's requests and failing to group expectations.

'I find that sometimes parents return connected a permissive domiciled retired of guilt stemming from early puerility traumas, divorce, aliases being absent,' Ms Morgan said. 

'Children that turn up successful households pinch permissive parents often spell connected to struggle pinch managing challenging emotions, giving up erstwhile thing is challenging, and being argumentative pinch authority figures.'

She pointed to Kim Kardashian arsenic 1 illustration of a permissive parent, 'as she allows her children to origin disruption successful her location and appears to person very relaxed rules aliases expectations.' 

Kim, 43, coparents her 4 children - North, 11, Saint, 8, Chicago, 6, and Psalm, 5 - pinch ex Kanye West, 47. 

Ms Morgan pointed to an section successful nan astir caller play of The Kardashians, during which Kim shared she wishes and could beryllium much patient and system for illustration her sister Khloe. 

'It seems arsenic though Kim is facing nan challenges of raising children successful a permissive family arsenic her children are getting older. 

'One whitethorn wonderment if Kim parents retired of guilt owed to her narration pinch Kanye, her dense workload, aliases thing else,' Ms Morgan said. 

'If fixed nan opportunity, I would promote Kim to statesman creating boundaries and expectations for her children. It whitethorn beryllium difficult initially, and she tin expect immoderate pushback from her children; however, it is not excessively precocious to create a family that is benignant and patient astatine nan aforesaid time.'

One parenting attack that has taken TikTok by large wind is nan 'almond mom.'

The word was coined successful 2022, erstwhile TikToker pattypopculture posted a video called '5 Reasons Everyone Hates Yolanda Hadid.' 

The personification claimed Hadid, mother to supermodels Gigi and Bella Hadid, encouraged her daughters to travel highly restrictive diets.

In nan video, pattypopculture shares a clip from 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,' successful which Hadid tells Gigi to 'eat a crockery each day.' In different clip, Gigi called her mother claiming that she only ate half an almond and 'was emotion really weak.'

Hadid, 60 and a erstwhile supermodel herself, told Gigi to 'have a mates of almonds and chew them really well.' 

In nan months that followed, thousands of societal media users shared stories of their ain 'almond moms' who passed connected restrictive and vulnerable ideas astir food. 

Dr Jenny Woo, affectional intelligence interrogator and founder/CEO of Mind Brain Emotion, told DailyMail.com that Yolanda's 'solution' to Gigi's hunger 'is a classical illustration of nan almond mom behaviors.' 

'This utmost attraction connected restrictive eating and weight power tin summation nan consequence of processing eating disorders and consequence successful unhealthy relationships pinch nutrient and assemblage appearance,' she warned. 

Gwyneth Paltrow was besides accused of being an almond mom aft stating successful an question and reply past twelvemonth that her emblematic fare includes a cup of java successful nan morning, bony broth for lunch, and 'lots of vegetables' for dinner, coupled pinch astatine slightest an hr of exercise. 

Gentle parenting has besides go societal media famous. The style 'focuses connected showing empathy and respect to children,' Dr Woo said, and emphasizes affirmative reinforcement. 

'Celebs for illustration Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard person been noted for promoting patience successful raising their kids,' Dr Woo said. 

She noted that this could put them successful nan gentle parenting camp. 

'Celebrities for illustration Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard look to favour this approach, stressing nan value of empathy successful raising kids who are emotionally beardown and confident,' Dr Oreck agreed. 

Bell, 43, and Shepard, 49, stock 2 daughters, Delta and Lincoln. The mates drew disapproval past year, for example, erstwhile they revealed that they let nan girls portion non-alcoholic beers.

'When they person tried to bid [non-alcoholic beers] astatine a edifice aliases something, it's because of a very circumstantial relationship to you. Because first of all, they're knowledgeable connected addiction and what substances are and really they impact your assemblage and really scary they are and what they tin do to you,' Bell said, referencing her husband's past struggles pinch addiction. 

Actress Mindy Kaling has besides mentioned that she doesn't want to beryllium a genitor who 'screams astatine her kids,' suggesting a gentle parenting style.

'To me, group who do not rustle their apical and besides tin enactment connected a accordant message. That to maine - I'm astir impressed by those people, she said astatine nan BetterUp Summit successful April. 

On a much utmost extremity of nan spectrum are chopper parents, who return utmost inaugural successful their children's lives.  

'Helicopter parenting is erstwhile parents are driven by a precocious desire to protect and guarantee their children’s success. They are often overly progressive pinch their children’s lives,' Dr Woo said. 

Hallmarks typically see micromanagement and needing to beryllium afloat successful control, arsenic good arsenic helping children pinch tasks they could easy complete connected their own. This is besides called a 'snowplow' aliases 'lawnmower' parent. 

Dr Woo warned that while 'this tin lead to externally successful children, it tin stifle independency and problem-solving skills.'

'An evident illustration of chopper aliases Snowplow parenting is Lori Loughlin, who resorted to bribery successful her daughter’s assemblage admissions process,' she said. 

Loughlin, 59, came nether occurrence successful 2019 aft it was revealed she and 50 different parents were charged pinch cheating to get their children into college. 

Additionally, Ms Morgan said a celebrated attack is charismatic parenting.

'Authoritative parents find a equilibrium betwixt creating building and allowing children to person state and flexibility,' she said. 'They create opportunities for their children to lick problems for themselves while remaining a supportive personification for their kid to return to erstwhile needed.'

'Children that are raised by charismatic parents often person precocious self-worth, are really awesome astatine problem solving, and are capable to support patient relationships pinch others.'

Dr Oreck pointed to popular vocalist Pink arsenic personification 'known for her charismatic parenting style, having spoken openly astir mounting clear rules and boundaries for her children while besides encouraging their independency and creativity.'  

This is not to beryllium confused pinch authoritarian parents, who 'tend to beryllium overbearing, person strict rules without explanations, and instrumentality harsh consequences,' Ms Morgan said. 

Parents pursuing this style person besides been shown to beryllium demanding, impatient, and unwilling to negotiate. 

Arnold Schwarzenegger told People last twelvemonth that had immoderate utmost parenting methods erstwhile his children were young. 

For example, nan action star, 76, recalled throwing his son's mattress retired nan model erstwhile aft nan nine-year-old dailed to make nan bed.

'I opened up nan doorway to nan balcony, picked up nan mattress and threw it down pinch nan bedsheets, nan pillows, everything. I said, "don't ever make personification travel successful and cleanable your room, cleanable your ablution aliases make your bed,"' he said. 

'I said, "Because I taught you really to make nan bed."'

Additionally, he admitted to burning his daughter's shoes aft she forgot to put them away. 

New York-based kid scientist Dr Francyne Zeltser told CNBC Make It that Schwarzenegger's actions matched nan explanation of an 'authoritarian' parent.

'It doesn’t matter if it’s making beds [or] putting shoes away. If it’s thing that you’re tin of doing, and nan anticipation is that you do it, you should do it, moreover if personification other is present that will do it if you don’t,' Dr Zeltser said. 

'Words unsocial don’t ever subordinate nan aforesaid connection arsenic action. So possibly nan mattress retired nan window, aliases nan shoes and nan fireplace were [Schwarzenegger’s] measurement of demonstrating that he was superior by what he said.'

Schwarzenegger besides warned against creating a 'generation of wimps and anemic people' connected nan Howard Stern Show, calling upon parents to 'teach kids to beryllium tough, to do sports, to study and struggle and spell done these benignant of achy moments sometimes.'